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Chinese painters during the last six centuries of imperial rule (the
Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, ca. 1300-1900) included outraged loyalists
protesting against Mongol conquerors; professional artists producing
scrolls of auspicious birds and flowers for an eager market;  prosperous
landed gentry recording their comfortable world of private gardens and
social gatherings; court painters studying western techniques to gratify
an emperor's taste for the exotic; royal princes turned monks, loyal
officials turned rebels, recluses and courtesans, eccentrics and straight
arrows, madmen and yes men. This course will review the diverse traditions
of later Chinese painting in the context of social and economic history,
movements in religion and thought, and the challenges of dynastic change,
urbanization, regional and class rivalries, and contacts with the European
west.

The course includes an overview of earlier Chinese painting; no previous
study of Chinese art is required. Readings are assembled in a coursepack,
and key pictures are available on the course website. The main assignments
are a midterm, a final, and a term paper. SHHS, CSA.